SideArc: Vertical Tabs Manager, Spaces & Tab Trees

Tracking since Apr 8, 2026.

Changelog

• May 14, 2026
  short_description

  Organize tabs into spaces in Chrome's side panel. Search, pin, and switch contexts without tab chaos.

  Vertical tabs and tab manager for Chrome. Organize tabs into spaces, folders, pins, tab trees, and side panel workflows.

• May 14, 2026
  name

  Sidearc: Vertical Tabs & Spaces

  SideArc: Vertical Tabs Manager, Spaces & Tab Trees

• May 9, 2026
  description

  Sidearc turns Chrome’s side panel into a calm, structured tab workspace. Create spaces for different parts of your life, keep important tabs pinned, save favorites at the top, and switch contexts without losing your place.
  
  Features:
   - Spaces for work, personal, research, clients, and projects
   - Vertical tab management inside Chrome’s side panel
   - Favorites, pins, and folders for fast tab organization
   - Search across open tabs and saved tabs
   - Bookmark import to turn bookmark folders into spaces
   - Keyboard shortcuts and appearance customization
   - Local-first workflow designed for people with too many tabs
  
  Limitations:
   - Chrome currently enforces the side panel’s minimum width, and the extension cannot reduce it further
  
  Built for people who live with too many tabs open and want Chrome to feel organized again. Sidearc is the tabs Chrome should’ve shipped.

  Sidearc turns Chrome's side panel into a calm vertical tab workspace for people with too many tabs.
  
  Create spaces for work, personal, research, clients, or projects. Keep important pages in favorites, save reusable tabs as pins, organize saved tabs into folders, and switch context without losing your place.
  
  Features:
  - Vertical tabs inside Chrome's side panel
  - Spaces for separate projects, clients, workflows, or parts of your life
  - Favorites, pins, folders, and saved tabs
  - Search across open tabs, saved tabs, folders, and Google
  - Bookmark import that can turn bookmark folders into Sidearc spaces
  - Rename noisy tab titles inside Sidearc without changing the real page title
  - Group tabs by domain for easier scanning
  - Quick shortcuts for opening Sidearc, switching to your most recent tab
  - Quick-Copy the current tab URL with shift-cmd-L
  - Appearance controls for theme, UI scale, accent color, backgrounds, undo popups, and favicon style
  - Optional account sync for keeping your Sidearc setup across your own browsers
  
  Sidearc works locally by default and is built to make Chrome feel organized again.
  
  Limitations:
  - Chrome controls the side panel's minimum width, so Sidearc cannot make the native side panel narrower than Chrome allows.
  
  Sidearc is the tabs Chrome should've shipped.

• May 9, 2026
  category

  productivity/workflow

  make_chrome_yours/functionality

• May 9, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://*.convex.site/*

  https://disciplined-crow-319.convex.site/*, https://us.i.posthog.com/*

• May 9, 2026
  permissions

  alarms, bookmarks, sidePanel, storage, tabs, tabGroups

  alarms, bookmarks, favicon, sidePanel, storage, tabs, tabGroups

Permissions & access

Permissions

alarmsbookmarksfaviconsidePanelstoragetabstabGroups

Host access

https://disciplined-crow-319.convex.site/*, https://us.i.posthog.com/*

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